The Miles to the Grocery Store Got Longer This Year
How Southeast D.C. shoppers navigated a separate and unequal food system under strain.
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“Good Design” Is Making Bad Cities
Searching for a third way in the battle between aesthetics and affordability.
The Nicest Thing I Can Say About Greg Gutfeld’s Late-Night Show on Fox News
It’s charming and weird, and it’s up to something.
The Miles to the Grocery Store Got Longer This Year
How Southeast D.C. shoppers navigated a separate and unequal food system under strain.
Joe Biden Wants to Put the World’s Corporate Tax Havens Out of Business
It would pay for his ambitious policies—and solve one of the thorniest problems created by global capitalism.
Joe Biden Wants to Put the World’s Corporate Tax Havens Out of Business
It would pay for his ambitious policies—and solve one of the thorniest problems created by global capitalism.
The unlikely state setting the U.S. vaccination pace
The sprawling state, one of the nation’s poorest, overcame the odds by keeping things simple.
The unlikely state setting the U.S. vaccination pace
The sprawling state, one of the nation’s poorest, overcame the odds by keeping things simple.
Help! My Twin Dyed Her Hair Bright Orange to “Stand Out” at My Wedding.
All I can think about is how she’ll look like Carrot Top in all the photos.
Biden’s spending plans collide with a resurgent U.S. economy
The numbers signal the U.S. is well on its way toward a revival, one that’s widely expected to reach record levels of growth later this year.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
Fed sees U.S. economic growth surging to 6.5 percent this year
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder Helped Lead 2016 Anti-DAPL Uprising
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian, has died of cancer at the age of 64, and we look back on her work, through interviews on her land and in the Democracy Now! studio. Allard co-founded the Sacred Stone Camp on Standing Rock Sioux land in April 2016 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline, to which people from around the world traveled, making it one of the largest gatherings of Indigenous peoples in a century. “We say mni wiconi, water of life.
Matt Gaetz’s iPhone Is Seized; Associate Talks In Sex Trafficking Probe: Reports
Federal agents seized the Florida Republican’s device when executing a search warrant over the winter, Politico reported.
News Roundup: A vaccine setback, vaccine passports, and fury over another Black American’s death
In today’s news: Appointments for receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine were canceled throughout the country today after the Biden administration recommended a pause amid concerns over an extremely rare possible reaction to the “one-and-done” injection. Those vaccinations seem likely to resume after federal officials distribute new medical guidance on how to recognize and treat the blood clots.
Why Muslims don’t eat or drink anything from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan
This year went by fast. It feels as though it just began, but we’re already in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. I’m definitely happy but still in denial—this year, I wasn’t ready. For Muslims around the world, today marks the first fast of Ramadan 2021, meaning that beginning last night, for the next 30 days I—alongside millions of Muslims—will be refraining from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset.
Biden Justice Department has refused to disclose certain family separation documents
The Biden administration had until April 2 to decide whether or not it would disclose documents relating to the previous administration’s family separation policy, including from a reported White House meeting where former aide and noted white supremacist Stephen Miller and other officials from that administration allegedly voted on the policy of state-sanctioned kidnapping.
Grooms turned away from wedding venue in North Carolina for precisely the reason you might expect
While hosting a large party or having a destination wedding are obviously not smart choices during an ongoing global pandemic, couples are continuing to get married for a number of reasons. People are also making future wedding plans. One such duo is McCae Henderson and Ike Edwards, a same-sex couple living in Raleigh, North Carolina, who have a wedding planned for April 2022.
A tale of two bills: Competing legislation on the status of Puerto Rico
On Wednesday, April 14, the House Committee on Natural Resources, chaired by Arizona Democrat Raúl M. Grijalva, will hold a full committee hearing on two pieces of legislation which take oppositional positions on the future status of Puerto Rico. They are H.R.1522, “To provide for the admission of the State of Puerto Rico into the Union,” and H.R.
Biden’s ‘trust the science’ approach hits a political snag
The FDA’s decision to pause the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine sparked criticism from across the spectrum that the administration was being too cautious.
Biden’s ‘trust the science’ approach hits a political snag
The FDA’s decision to pause the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine sparked criticism from across the spectrum that the administration was being too cautious.
OSHA Fines Company That Wouldn’t Let Employees And Customers Wear Masks
The $136,000 fine is the largest COVID-related penalty to date from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Want to Be Ant Royalty? Prepare to Lose Part of Your Brain.
For most ant species, nothing spells apocalypse quite like the death of a queen. A colony stripped of its monarch, the group’s only fertile female and the sole source of eggs, quickly unravels, then extinguishes—an entire society snuffed out. The captain does not go down with her ship; the ship goes down with her captain.Indian jumping ants do not abide by such dictatorial dramatics. They’ve evolved a work-around to indefinitely forestall their colonies’ demise.
Madison Cawthorn Wants To Protect Trump’s Half-Finished Wall As A Monument
The freshman GOP congressman says he’s “proud” to introduce the “Donument Act”(sigh) to “protect the southern border wall from alteration.
Prosecutor Knocks Defense Expert’s Claim That Deadly Force Not Used In George Floyd Arrest
Barry Brodd, a use-of-force consultant, also denied that officer Derek Chauvin’s knee was ever on Floyd’s neck.
Three Different Futures for the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has entered regulatory purgatory. This morning, the CDC and FDA jointly recommended, “out of an abundance of caution,” a nationwide halt to the single shot’s rollout. The two agencies are investigating a rare blood-clotting disorder: In the six cases reported so far, all in the United States, women ages 18 to 48 developed an unusual type of blood clot within about two weeks of receiving the company’s inoculation.
Exit Strategy
In important aspects of foreign and national-security policy, the Biden administration is really the Trump administration but with civilized manners. In no respect is that more true than in the president’s announcement of a complete military withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11 of this year, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that brought the United States to that country’s stark mountains, fruitful valleys, and dusty towns.
Biden Can Redeem His Mistake
If the purpose of the Afghan War was to prevent terrorists from using Afghanistan to stage attacks on the United States, America could have declared victory and gone home years ago. But if the purpose was also to help build a durable state—to prevent the Taliban from taking power again, destroying the hard-won progress made by millions of Afghan citizens, and perhaps allowing radical Islamists to regain a base on Afghan soil—then the longest war in U.S. history is ending in defeat.